Five reasons to upset Hillary Clinton at the debate

Many journalists predicted in advance that Hillary Clinton would be defeated in the first debates of the Democrats, which will be held today in Las Vegas and will be broadcast by the CNN channel.

Mark Halperin from Bloomberg believes that any Hillary’s mistake will be the main topic to be discussed following the debates. Of course, the favorite always has something to lose, unlike his rivals. It is for this reason that all the favorites seek to limit the number of debates, and their pursuers, on the contrary, hope that they will have as many chances as possible to show themselves.

Clinton bye leading the race of democratsand leads by a wide margin. Bernie Sanders will increase his legitimacy just by being on the stage next to Hillary, and Vice President Joe Biden can take advantage of any minus, real or supposed, to intervene in the election race. The three other candidates participating in the debates - Martin O'Mailey, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb - are not expected to have a chance of being nominated by the party, but they can certainly damage the Clinton election campaign, pointing out its differences from the majority of Democrats. who increasingly call themselves "liberals."

However, nothing yet indicates that Clinton is will lose on Tuesday. In 2008, she established herself as an extremely talented opponent in the debate. This dignity was recognized by the team of Barack Obama, and now can not be ignored by her rivals. Thanks to the successful performance of Hillary can even more break away from his pursuers, leaving them in view of the rearview mirror, and Joe Biden - on the sidelines. But there are more risks for her than for any other candidate.

1. The impact of money on politics and strategy

Clinton tried to soften the level of criticism for being too close to her donors on Wall Street and in corporate America, promising to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will review the rule adopted in 2010. Citizens United [gives corporations and unions the opportunity to spend unlimited amounts on advertising and other political tools in favor of certain candidates], and called for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the receipt of "easy" money for election campaigns. However, this item is still extremely vulnerable to Clinton.

Sanders, her closest rival, does not have a Political Action Committee (PAC) raising funds for the presidential campaign, and he is actively discussing the evils of donors affecting American politics. In addition, among the largest industries that finance Clinton, there is not one donating money to other candidates.

The Clinton Foundation, in which Hillary worked after leaving the State Department and before joining the presidential race, basks in the money of large corporations that have significant business interests both inside and outside the United States. Vox counted 181, a donor of the Clinton Foundation, who lobbied the State Department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Both she and her husband, Bill Clinton, received bonuses from several of them after she left the government.

There is no evidence that the Clintons did any favors for donor companies, despite numerous attempts to find them, but the very fact of expanding the network of donors of the “Clinton world” creates noticeable discomfort for many democrats.

2. Email Scandal

For some time Hillary was forced to conduct two campaigns at once. The first worked on her election platform, attracted money and dealt with organizational issues. The second beat off regular attacks over the scandal with using personal email while working at the White House.

This topic still dominates the media covering the Clinton campaign. And she, most likely, will face a large number of questions about whether she has not compromised the principles of national security with her actions. Clinton herself and her team apparently understood in a short time that there are simply no good answers to these questions.

Clinton is constantly struggling with the public perception that she is an unreliable politician who does not deserve trust. In the debate, Hillary Clinton will try to position herself in a new light. However, she still needs to find a convincing answer to the question of why she set up her e-mail in this way and not otherwise.

"Forum" wrote earlier that Russian hackers at least five times tried to attack a private account Clinton.

3. Apology of war in the camp of peace-loving democrats

Exactly thirteen years ago, Hillary Clinton — still in the New York state senator — voted to give President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq, and the fiasco of the Iraqi campaign is still a weighty argument against Clinton among Democratic voters. In 2008, Obama used predictions about Iraq as an important lever in the period of his confrontation with Clinton, and Sanders is now trying to rally around him peace-loving democrats, talking about his negative attitude towards military actions as such.

Clinton admitted that she made a mistake in the 2012 year, but she is well aware that she is still too “militant” from the point of view of voters in the democratic camp. Another opponent of Hillary, Jim Webb, who opposed the war in Iraq, criticized the decision of the Obama administration to bomb Libya in 2011. After all, it was Secretary of State Clinton who gathered the international coalition that opened the way to an attack on the Gaddafi regime. He was eventually successfully removed from power, he was executed, but Libya was plunged into chaos.

One of the main challenges for Clinton during the debate will be to try to explain why her “soft power” tactics, as a means of implementing American foreign policy, including using the army, is correct.

4. Debate debate

Quite possibly, the moderators will try to convince Clinton to agree to participate in more than six debates that were scheduled by the Democratic National Committee. Her rivals want more debate, and the party’s committee chairman, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz (a longtime ally of Hillary Clinton), was harshly criticized by other candidates, as well as by her two deputies, for perseverance in defending the current number of scheduled debates.

Tulsi Gabbard, vice chairman of Hawaii’s national committee, said she was advised not to attend the Las Vegas debates, since she was an ardent supporter of the increase in the number of debates. At a party meeting in Minneapolis in August, candidate O'Mailey blamed the Democratic National Committee and Wasserman-Schulz personally for scheduling to help Clinton win the nomination dispute.

Clinton probably does not want to give Democratic opponents additional chances to inflict damage on her campaign, but claims that it is necessary to adhere to the approved schedule only reinforces the idea that Hillary does not want to hold open competitions.

5. Activity assistants and double standards

One of the most serious blows to Clinton from both the Democrats and the Republicans are accusations that she "plays" by her own rules. The email scandal is one layer, but there is also a new front of attack on Clinton, for which she will also have to answer, allowing her associates to work simultaneously on the state and foreign companies.

According to the Washington Post, Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, had a special temporary status during the first four months of government work, which allowed her to continue negotiations on the establishment of a branch of the University of New York in Abu Dhabi. Earlier, the deputy chief of staff of Clinton, Hume Abedin, was allowed to start work in a public office, despite working in the international consulting company Teneo.

Critics Clinton say that there is a potential conflict of interest in the work of Mills and Abedin, although both strongly deny that they did something illegal. Clinton’s Republican opponents argue that she sets double standards using mechanisms that are forbidden to others.

As we reported earlier, opinion poll showed that billionaire Donald Trump holds the leading position among numerous candidates for the presidential candidate from the Republican Party, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads the Democrats. To the numerous criticism in the address and various dirt Clinton, who may become the first female president of the United States, is responsible, among other things, by participating in comedy shows on TV.